PREFACE. 



Having had many years practical experience as a grower 

 of cranberries, and being familiar with the various diffi- 

 culties which beset the path of those unskilled in their 

 culture, I have been induced, at the instance of friends, 

 to publish this book, containing the results of my expe- 

 rience, in the hope that it will serve as a guide to prevent 

 others from falling into such pit-falls and errors as have 

 many times in the past caused discouragement and failure. 



While I do not profess to know all that there is to be 

 known on this subject, I am fully convinced that a sug- 

 gestion of a practical man will prove of some benefit to 

 those who undertake cranberry growing without previous 

 knowledge or experience. Nor do I think it will prove 

 entirely without avail to some who may previously have 

 tried cranberry culture. 



Undoubtedly both labor and money may be saved by 

 the acceptance of timely hints, thrown out for the benefit 

 of those most deeply concerned ; for it is a certainty that,' 

 under proper conditions, and in those sections of the 

 country best adapted to their culture, cranberries can be 

 successfully raised, and with as profitable results as can 

 be obtained from any pursuit in which the husbandman 

 can engage. 



In this belief, and with this end in view, I have en- 

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